Leon Rodriguez: Republican Party needs to change

The campaign is over and President Obama did in fact win the majority of the popular vote and the electoral college vote. If Rosen could possibly close his eyes to his prejudices and then open his eyes to clearly look at what the majority of Americans see, he will see that we Americans are so privileged to have an outstanding, intelligent, compassionate human being as our national leader.

Rosen must realize that running a government budget is like running a family budget. You must have income/revenue to cover expenses in order to survive.

If every taxpayer paid their fair share there would be no fiscal cliff. If a family maxes out their credit and borrows on their mortgage of their home they are headed for disaster. That is the same for government. In the past we have started two unnecessary wars (without funding) and we still give huge unnecessary welfare/funding to big oil, the monster agribusiness, big pharma and the war profiteers like Haliburton, Black Water, etc.

We must stop nation building and getting involved in civil wars. Balancing a budget is not rocket science or neurosurgery, it just takes a little common sense and a little cooperation from the Republicans in Congress. We have a bright, intelligent black man in the White House, grow up and live with it, it is the choice of the majority of Americans.

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Many of Rosen's right-wing hacks have complained about illegal Latino immigrants. Most of the Latino voters in Colorado are descendants of residents that lived in Colorado before Colorado was a state. As a an American/Latino I resent the continuous denigrating of all Latinos as illegal immigrants. Most Colorado Latinos were here before the so-called pioneers.

I suggest the colors of the political map be changed to "Blue" for the democrats and "Gray" for the Republicans. "Gray" is the color of mushrooms. The folks living in the "Red (Gray)" areas of the political map are not kept informed as to what is actually happening in the world, they get all their information from the right-wing, homophobic, racist, woman-hating likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Fox News.

These folks are like the gray mushroom as they are kept in the dark and fed dirt.

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